Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(954 total reviews)
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19% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 954 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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954 reviews
1.0
Oct 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon is a customer centric company. Whatever you do in Amazon, you should think of your customer.

Cons

Nobody will help you with anything. Everybody tries to find a way to promotion and one person from a team can be promoted during a review period. So, this basically makes everybody hate each other. You may not even find a colleague to go to lunch with. Even worst, if you are good engineer, everybody will be looking to see you fail or creating an image of failure for you. Thus, everybody tries to use politics as much as they can.

4.0
Oct 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You'll work with a lot of smart people that you can learn from. Lots of great tools at your disposal. And you'll likely work on something at a massive scale, which is an interesting challenge.

Cons

Your experience will vary greatly from team to team. On call can become very inconvenient, though on-call also varies greatly from team to team. Management tends to prefer new features to polishing existing products (though that's common to many companies), and tech debt can pile up quickly.

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